Travis, sorry, but that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There are countless reasons why you would want and need to interact with the screen while locked. Training presentations are just one example. When connected to a projector, it is often helpful to zoom into part of an application window or website so that everyone can clearly see. In fact, even zooming into an entire window (e.g. using Super-R) and then locking it would also be useful.
As mentioned, there are ways to make it work but then it breaks other functionality. Case in point, when mousepointer scaling is enabled (which enables interactivity on zoom-locked windows) and the second mouse pointer is hidden, Ubuntu completely loses any sort of 'in progress' or 'busy' pointer. Try navigating web pages when the cursor completely disppears when a webpage is loading. It's a pain to have to wait for the entire webpage to finish loading before being able to click on a link. And, keep in mind, this occurs when not actively using the Enhanced Zoom function. It's clearly related to the 'Hide original mouse pointer' option not being disabled again after zooming out. No matter how you look at this, it's a bug (or more than one bug -- and extremely irritating) and needs to be fixed. Saying "you're not meant to be able to interact with the system ... while Zoom Area Lock is enabled" is both counterintuitive and senseless. Clearly it does work (and therefore I can only assume WAS designed to work) but it breaks other stuff in the process that isn't even related to the Enhanced Desktop Zoom. I would think this should be an easy fix -- just enable the 'Hide original mouse cursor' option (if selected) when zooming and disable it when zoomed out. Of course, 'Scale the mouse pointer' has to be enabled for everything to work, but this would be completely acceptable. -- compiz->enhanced zoom desktop->zoom area lock = mouse input redirection breaks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180830 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
